Part I: The Building of New China --
1. The Road to the Future --
2. The Economic Base: Agriculture and Industry, 1949-1955 --
3. The Superstructure, the Party Struggle, and Confucius --
4. Thought Remolding and the Intelligentsia --
5. The Ten Great Contradictions and Relations --
6. The Hundred Flowers --
7. East Wind, West Wind: China, the USSR, and the United States, 1949-1957 --
8. The Great Leap Forward and the Communes, 1958-1959 --
9. The Tenth Year: 1959 and the Second Major Struggle in the Party Since 1949 --
10. The Years of Endurance: September 1959 to September 1962 --
11. Mao Tsetung Against Revisionism, 1960-1962 --
Part II: The Cultural Revolution and After --
1. Prelude, 1962-1965 --
2. Revisionism and Imperialism --
3. The Cultural Revolution Swings into Action --
4. The Tortuous Zigzags of the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1967 --
5. Construction After Destruction, 1968-1971 --
6. China and the World --
7. Mao Tsetung, Confucius and the Future.